Show broom dorn corn f the tho department of agriculture publishes the following it la but a very few faw few years since the importance of the extensive cultivation ot of garn broom corn has attracted the attention of either the farmer or manufacturer but bat now in the nor Vor northern thern western and middle states it has grown io in to tb an important ut industry aud and 3 d there is no reason why the southern planter e should not turn Ws his attention to the same subject and thereby awaken another manufacturing occupation among the people there is no climate in tho the united states in which broom corn will not grow with more or less success and the mode of its cultivation does not materially differ from that of the ordinary or d ln ar y corn or maize and like nii all 1 1 0 other t be grain its successful production is dependent upon the quality of the soil and the care with which the land laud is cultivated for broom corn dern the land should be plowed in the fall this attains two objects the frosts of or winter ameliorate and make blake friable the soil and the work la Is then done and will wili pot be liable to the delay 01 of f planting lint ting early in the spring this Is particular barly Jy necessary in the northern and middle states where spring sowing ia Is often delayed by cold rains if the he ground la be well and deeply plow plowed edin edid in the fall irwill supersede sede the necessity of gloving it again in the spring the ground may be then well weli harrowed rolled and 11 scored cored out three feet one ode way and two the other thimas this is astuto ing that th the a ia A in good fertile condition n 6 i if it be not nol then it should be made B so d beform before plowing in fall by the application of barn barli yard manure land laud cannot be made too rich for corn coring the land both ways en enables ablis the farmer to work vork it both ways with cultivators if the seed reed se eabe be dropped with a drill then it need not be scored about three quarts of seed will plant au an acre aboon aek soon as the corn Is seer seen above the ground the working to keep down the weeds weeda should be commenced and it must be kept clean throughout ghost the season broom corn will grow from eight to twelve feet high and its brush brusk should be two feet long this however la Is de dependent in a great degree the fhe quality of the soil and the care with which it ia Is cultivated after the corp ia Is grown to full size siz ethe etho the tho top Is bent beat down at a point one foot delow the brush shia thia ia in for the purpose of preventing too mulch much spreading reading Bp and j if be go 30 bent that it may be as little exposed to the sun as possible I 1 in a order to preserve its color whether then ther this thia operation of bending down the top be before drafter or after the ri of the seed must be made to depend upon whether it be most knost desirable to perfectly ripen the seed or secure the best quality of brush the plant being ripe and properly dry the brush is to be cut off afrand and aud hauled to the barn and the seed taken onn off elther either by a hackle or other machinery the character of broom corn has of late years much improved in length hod and stiff stiffness hoss and persons desirous of raising it should give much dilich attention to the character of the seed beed the brush ia worth from 6 to 12 cents a pound and the seed beed about as much a as corn for the feed of cattle there are larga jarga manufactories manu factories of clot ciot clothed ilas laas and sweeping brooms in new york and massachusetts and the product of the broom corn is always abw ays a marketable article articie estimate may be mado made of the tho profit arising from the the tho cultivation of broom corn from the reports mado nindo by the farmers of massachusetts and new vork york to their respective agricultural societies AS sa the tho same are published in their annual transactions the value of the cro crop is reported by the massachusetts agricultural agricultural society as follows 1 1159 lbs ibs of brush brushy at 7 cents ia 13 83 68 bushels bushes ol 01 seed beed at 15 0 centa 59 3 3 9 60 1120 73 ri i ESPEy SES manure 10 1000 00 plowing and 3 CO 00 cultivating and sad care of seeds Be eds it 13 00 interest on land 9 00 to ioco co act set profit on ono one aara sa 73 |